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R9 Nano Review thread
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No offence to Ferrari but that score is very very low and puts it in line with a GTX 970 with a small overclock
It's in a pants rig, what do you expect? Pardon the pun but he's built a Ferrari with a Cortina engine in it.
I've seen a Radeon 290 score 3000 points more in Firestrike going from a FX6300 to a 4770k.
CPU makes a massive difference to all of the scores.
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It's a strange choice of Cpu to power such an expensive card. If i was him it would be coming out asap.
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Actually its wrong. It had a frtc 60fps cap
The actual result with frtc off is 10400+
This will beat most 970s except oc which will increase the fan noise considerably on the 970.
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No offence to Ferrari but that score is very very low and puts it in line with a GTX 970 with a small overclock
Yep it wrong. I had frtc set to 60fps.
With it off it reaches 10400+
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How is it strange?
I have had that CPU a while.
I am unsure whether to upgrade it yet as its suitable.
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It's supposed to be up there with the 980s, not the 970s.
entirely dependent on the cooler of course. wrong thread for discussing 970 noise though!
Anyway, give us a link then
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It's pretty low end to pair with a high end card is all. It's going to hold you back judging by the physics score you got. For instance my old shed of a cpu scores 9900 in the Physics test. In fact my rig scores similar to yours with my card at stock and is not even worth what your Nano cost.
Edit: if you were capped then fair enough. I think i would still want an i7 quad core in there to make sure i am getting the best from the nano.
At stock nano should be getting close to 14k graphics score according to this.
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/AMD-Radeon-R9-Nano-Review/3DMark-Fire-Strike-and-Unigine-Heaven
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It's supposed to be up there with the 980s, not the 970s.
entirely dependent on the cooler of course. wrong thread for discussing 970 noise though!
Anyway, give us a link then
Whoever brought up the 970 in this thread should realise for the same performance you will have to crank the oc massively thus making it much noisier. Defeats the object of wanting a quiet machine. I will post update later as I'm at work. I'm sure it would hover at 11000+ with an i7 in it but I have not made up my mind whether to buy one yet or not.
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I did and i know how quiet my infinity black is when it's running flat out. forget the 970, my point was your scores were low, at least going by the reviews of in-game performance we've seen so far. I mentioned my own score because i highlighted how low your score is - everybody here knows the nano is supposed to be a faster card.
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CPU upgrades are a funny thing. Right now you may need more but moving forward you will be fine once DX12 games are common. If your gaming experience is fine you don't need an upgrade to push some arbitrary 3D synthetic benchmark numbers. If you have a 60hz monitor and you're getting 60fps in most things, to me that doesn't justify an upgrade. If you live to upgrade and benchmark by all means blow some cash on an upgrade.
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These are my thoughts exactly. I don't need anything more powerful and I am hedging my bets that new DX titles will share the load around the 4 cores effectively. I am not spending cash unneccassarily.
Nano has given me the experience I want right now and that is all that matters. Its a perfect fit with the lian li case and I couldn't be happier.
AMD have done a great job.
Guys. I bought a PowerColor Nano and recieved it Monday.
Just doe 3D Market score when 10% catalyst overclock.
Not bad eh.
Small amount of coil whine at times but not as bad as a 290 when that gets going.
Bear in Mind the not sooo fast Intel i5 - 4460 doing the CPU work.
Lian Li PC-Q33WB Mini-ITX Cube - Black Window:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=ca-706-ll
amd powercolor nano
16gb fury ram 2400
intel 15 4460 cpu
asrock z97m-itz/ac
650 corsair modular psu
500gb samsung pro 840 ssd
My 780Ti with an X5650.
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/8612678
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As the only owner of a Nano that horse has all ready bolted, you have effectively paid £10 per 1% of preformance increase over a 970 mini.
Combining Graphics and physics scores results in lower scores if its an AMD CPU even if the performance is higher on both things its combining.
Clearly they are using a different equation to calculate the end performance depending on what brand of hardware you are using, its an equation that favours one brand over the other.
If I had a faster CPU and frtc off the nano would win for sure.
That may well be, but for now, I'm faster than a Ferrari with older tech!
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humbug, your combined gpu/physics test score is lower. it's not the sum of the separate tests that's the problem, it's the last combined test thats test both simultaneously. for whatever reason, it's not running as well on AMD cpus.
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Sounds like you're fine then man. When I get my Zen (or other) system upgrade I'm hoping to do some DX12 tests comparing it to this old PhenomII, should be pretty interesting.
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As the only owner of a Nano that horse has all ready bolted, you have effectively paid £10 per 1% of preformance increase over a 970 mini.
Not really, I dont mind spendin good money to a business that innovates for a quality product. The same goes for the cars I drive.
I wanted a small, powerful and quiet PC. Thats what I got.
If in the future there is a requirement to better the CPU I will. But let's face it, with AMD GPU's having hardware async for dx12 titles to buy into as well as CPU compute being shared more evenly between cores in the future that is unlikely to happen.